Sir Thomas Browne - Haymarket, Norwich, Norfolk.
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Sir Thomas Browne practiced medicine and lived until his death, in 1682, in Norwich. His first well-known work bore the Latin title Religio Medici (The Religion of a Physician).
Waymark Code: WMC40J
Location: United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/22/2011
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This is a direct copy of the first part of the article on Sir Thomas Browne taken from Wikipedia. I make no appology for using it, I did not know of Sir Thomas Browne before looking him up on the net.
On 14 March 1673, Browne sent a short autobiography to the antiquarian John Aubrey, presumably for Aubrey's collection of Brief Lives, which provides an introduction to his life and writings.
...I was born in St Michael’s Cheap in London, went to school at Winchester College, then went to Oxford, spent some years in foreign parts, was admitted to be a Socius Honorarius of the College of Physicians in London, Knighted September, 1671, when the King Charles II, the Queen and Court came to Norwich. Writ Religio Medici in English, which was since translated into Latin, French, Italian, High and Low Dutch.
Pseudodoxia Epidemica, or Enquiries into Common and Vulgar Errors translated into Dutch four or five years ago.
Hydriotaphia, or Urn Buriall.
Hortus Cyri, or de Quincunce.
Have some miscellaneous tracts which may be published...
The Thomas Browne grey plaque is to be found at 1 Orford Place, on a pillaar to the right of 'Pret a Manger', at the junction with Haymarket. It reads:
Sir Thomas Browne
Physician and Author of Religio Medici
1605 - 1682
Lived in a house that once stood near this plaque
At the junction of the Haymarket and
Orford Place.
Browne's Meadow is named after him, he had lease of a meadow on the site behind this plaque.
Further information about this remarkable man and his legacy can be found here: Sir Thomas Browne